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Dr Feelgood (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Vaxx)

3rd March 2021 Going Postal 0

So………….good news, peeps! It appears that the Big Pharma Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid !! It’s an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce [more…]

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19th Century

John Scott Russell

3rd March 2021 Going Postal 0

Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 9

2nd March 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

I still scan comments on an article recently published because I enjoy the opportunity to have a dynamic exchange with folk of widely varying knowledge of the sea in a much less time-consuming way than [more…]

Arts

Rough Gardening In A Pandemic (Laying The Ground) RIP Norman

2nd March 2021 Colin Cross 0

It’s no secret that, by now, we’re all heartily pissed off with this whole Covid business. I could write a litany of woes, some deeply personal, some widely shared and others purely observational that would, [more…]

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The Glorious Adventures Of Freckle Faced Meg

2nd March 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Speaking of happy couples, it is our silver wedding anniversary this week. You may think that after a quarter of a century it might be difficult to surprise a spouse. Think again. When my other [more…]

Fiction

The Tortures of the Quarantined

1st March 2021 Going Postal 0

Simon Marmeladov  was in Greece learning Greek. Because Santorini tends to be rather hot in June, the lessons started at seven in the morning and finished at eleven. This arrangement suited Simon who had become [more…]

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“Back to Basics” – International Trade

1st March 2021 Emile Woolf 0

Trade Surpluses and Deficits Any country’s trade balance is the difference between the totals of its exports and imports respectively, as measured in its own currency. To the extent that its exports exceed its imports, [more…]

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Democracy

Racism – The Root of All Evil

1st March 2021 James Dalton 0

There was a time when the love of money was the root of all evil. Then socialists in schools tweaked that lesson ever so subtly and suddenly, unnoticed, money was the root of all evil. [more…]

Fiction

The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 9

28th February 2021 Blown Periphery 0

January 1997 – Salisbury Plain It could have been anywhere, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, but this time it was Wiltshire. The C130 rattled the window frames as it passed 200 feet above the houses below, leaving [more…]

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